{"id":51101,"date":"2015-08-07T15:00:46","date_gmt":"2015-08-07T15:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/irish_times_belfast_preacher_in_court_over_calling_islam_satanic\/"},"modified":"2015-08-07T15:00:46","modified_gmt":"2015-08-07T15:00:46","slug":"irish_times_belfast_preacher_in_court_over_calling_islam_satanic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=51101","title":{"rendered":"(Irish Times) Belfast preacher in court over calling Islam \u201d\u02dcsatanic\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Christian preacher Pastor James McConnell has said he wants to be \u201cexonerated, liberated and set free\u201d\u009d after he pleaded not guilty at a Belfast court in connection with charges he faces over a sermon where he branded Islam as \u201csatanic\u201d\u009d.<\/p>\n<p>At Laganside court on Thursday, the north Belfast preacher\u2019s solicitor Joe Rice said his client would be pleading not guilty to the case prosecutors have taken under the 2003 Communications Act.<\/p>\n<p>Supporters, including DUP MP Sammy Wilson, gathered outside the court holding placards to protest what they described as the pastor\u2019s right to free speech.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/news\/crime-and-law\/belfast-preacher-in-court-over-calling-islam-satanic-1.2308679\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christian preacher Pastor James McConnell has said he wants to be \u201cexonerated, liberated and set free\u201d\u009d after he pleaded not guilty at a Belfast court in connection with charges he faces over a sermon where he branded Islam as \u201csatanic\u201d\u009d.<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=51101\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,39,40,50,42,199,168,325,426,114,435,154,155,184,151,108,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-england-uk","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-ireland","category-islam","category-law-legal-issues","category-ministry-of-the-ordained","category-other-churches","category-other-faiths","category-parish-ministry","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51101\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}